https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-read-a-directory-and-append-the-files-in-it-to-one-file/m-p/67261#M14548 Hi All,<BR /> After one days of SAS tutorails<BR /> I have been assigned a task to read all the files in a driectory and append them to one. Can i get a short SAS code on this. I could manage to read a directory but after that I am clueless<BR /> Thanks Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:05:06 GMT deleted_user 2008-12-26T17:05:06Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-read-a-directory-and-append-the-files-in-it-to-one-file/m-p/67261#M14548 Hi All,<BR /> After one days of SAS tutorails<BR /> I have been assigned a task to read all the files in a driectory and append them to one. Can i get a short SAS code on this. I could manage to read a directory but after that I am clueless<BR /> Thanks Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:05:06 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-read-a-directory-and-append-the-files-in-it-to-one-file/m-p/67261#M14548 deleted_user 2008-12-26T17:05:06Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-read-a-directory-and-append-the-files-in-it-to-one-file/m-p/67262#M14549 Hi:<BR /> It really depends on whether your directory contains SAS datasets that you want to append into 1 bigger SAS dataset or whether your directory contains a set of disparate files (like .TXT or .CSV files) that you want to append together. <BR /> <BR /> The code would be different depending on what/how you want to do the appending. For SAS datasets, you might want to look at the syntax for PROC APPEND (for a procedure method to append SAS datasets) or the SET statement within a DATA step program (for a program language method to append). In addition, you could use PROC SQL for appending SAS datasets together.<BR /> <BR /> If you look in the documentation that's on-line and/or search for previous forum postings, I believe you'll find some code examples to help you.<BR /> <BR /> cynthia Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:27:42 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-read-a-directory-and-append-the-files-in-it-to-one-file/m-p/67262#M14549 Cynthia_sas 2008-12-26T17:27:42Z